Web Servers

Welcome to our tutorial on how to install and setup AWStats Log Analyzer on CentOS 8. AWStats is an acronym for Advanced Web Statistics and "is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains,...

Welcome to our tutorial on how to install and setup LEMP stack on Ubuntu 20.04.  LEMP Stack is a group of open source tools commonly used for developing and deploying web applications. It consists of the Linux Operating System (Ubuntu 20.04 in this case), lightweight and powerful Nginx (Engine-X) web server, MySQL/MariaDB RDBMS and the server-side scripting language, PHP. Install and Setup...

 Apache Tomcat is an opensource java based HTTP web server that implements  the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Apache Tomcat 9 on Ubuntu 20.04. Install Apache Tomcat 9 on Ubuntu 20.04 Run system update Ensure that your system package cache is up-to-date; apt update Install OpenJDK 14 on Ubuntu 20.04 Apache...

In this guide, we are going to learn how to install and Setup DVWA on CentOS 8. As you already know, DVWA, an acronym for Damn Vulnerable Web Application is a very vulnerable PHP/MySQL web application designed to help security professionals, students, web application developers to test their security skills, learn web application security and understand web application security...

In this guide, we are going to learn how to configure LibModsecurity with Nginx on CentOS 8. LibMosecurity is the newest version of ModSecurity version 2.9 and below. It is therefore known as ModSecurity version 3. Configure LibModsecurity with Nginx on CentOS 8 Run System Update Begin by updating your system packages. dnf update Install Required Build Tools and Dependencies Both Nginx and LibModsecurity are...

Want to shape your skills on web application security? Well how about you play around with Damn Vulnerable Web Application? Follow through this guide to learn how to install and setup DVWA on Debian 10 Buster as a legal environment to run your tests. Install and Setup DVWA on Debian 10 Run System Update To begin with, ensure that your system packages...

Follow through this guide to learn how to configure Apache with SSL/TLS Certificates on CentOS 8. Are you using Nginx instead? Check our guide on setting up Nginx with SSL/TLS certificates by following the link below; Configure Nginx with SSL/TLS certificates on CentOS 8 Configure Apache with SSL/TLS Certificates on CentOS 8 Run System Update Update your system package by executing; dnf update Install Apache and...

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to configure Nginx with SSL/TLS certificates on CentOS 8. The use of SSL/TLS certificates ensures secured as well as authentic communications between the web server and the web clients. Configure Nginx with SSL/TLS certificates on CentOS 8 Install Nginx and SSL/TLS module on CentOS 8 In order to configure Nginx HTTP server to...

This guide describes a step by step tutorial on how to install LAMP stack on CentOS 8. Install LAMP Stack on CentOS 8 LAMP is a group of opensource web development softwares; Linux OS, Apache http server, MariaDB/MySQL relational database management systems and PHP web scripting language. Run system package update. dnf update Install CentOS 8 Linux System In this case, the first component of...

This guide will step you through how to install Nginx on Debian 10 Buster. Nginx is an opensource web server, reverse proxy server for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, load balancer and an HTTP cache. Install Nginx on Debian 10 Buster Nginx is available on the default Debian 10 Buster repos and can be installed using the APT package...